Re: “Rattlesnakes” [Focus, March 21]: Where is the crucial part of the Register’s article that reminds readers how to avoid snakebites in the first place? Pointers:

1. If you see a snake, do not ever attempt to harm or kill it. At least 85 percent of all snakebites are the result of such actions. Besides which, all native California reptiles are considered a form of protected species.

Gov. Jerry Brown offered his opinion on “Meet the Press” that Sen. Ted Cruz is unfit to be running for president based upon the latter’s “ignorant” comments about global warming alarmists.

Does anyone else find it oddly coincidental that Gov. Brown believes that the $68 billion train he so forcefully pushes will actually meet its construction budget and not lose any money once it begins operation? Sen. Cruz offers a dose of healthy skepticism while the governor demonstrates a level of ...

As a retired research scientist, the only quibble that I have with Stephen Moore’s excellent “Myth of ‘settled science’” [Opinion, March 15] is that he doesn’t take issue with the use of the term “climate change” by environmentalists as being synonymous with anthropogenic global warming. Climate change deniers are, in fact, a straw man and figment of their warped imaginations.

There are only those who deny catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is a valid hypothesis. No one denies that climate changes and ...

Re: “Moorlach closing in on win” [Local, March 19]: The political scene in Orange County is just fraught with disappointment nowadays, but the election of John Moorlach to the 37th District State Senate seat gives me such hope for the future. Those who voted for John Moorlach were not deterred by his opposition’s deceptive ads, big bankroll (how much was union money?) or the fact that most, if not all, of the county’s elected officials endorsed him – that alone ...

I totally support the U.S. assisting Israel in defending itself. I also would like to see a two-state solution with Palestine, which has been a tenet of the U.S. and U.N. for decades. I remember and appreciate an old quote that stated, “they’re stuck between a two-state solution that’s too hard to implement and too important to abandon.” When Prime Minister Netanyahu mentioned his opposition was transporting busloads of Arabs to vote for them – which sounded racist to me ...

Re: “Years of lax regulation have allowed fronts for prostitution to grow” [Front page, March 12]: If human trafficking is involved with any massage business, every legal means to address and eliminate the exploitation and the abuses should occur. But if no trafficking exists, then government should take a hands-off (no pun intended) position.

Think about it for a moment without the knee-jerk response to the topic. Why would we spend tax resources on a business with willing vendors and clients, ...

“Any Iran deal needs Senate ratification” [Editorial, March 12], while stating the facts about the Republican senators’ letter to the Iranian government, is disingenuous at best when it claims, “Anything not approved by Congress is a mere executive agreement.” Indeed, it is how the Senate feels about executive agreements, but there is nothing “mere” about them.

Executive agreements, along with Congressional-Executive Agreements and treaties, are the three valid, binding methods of diplomatic “contracts” with other nations in use since the founding ...

Re: “Judge kicks D.A.’s office off Dekraai case” [Front page, March 13]: Once again, the people of Orange County are embarrassed by the person they elected to be their District Attorney. A self-confessed mass murderer and his attorney have been sand-bagged so ridiculously by our D.A. that the trial judge ordered the D.A. off the case for multiple violations of the killer’s rights.

What a fiasco this trial has become. Now the state Attorney General has to come in to clean ...

It was extremely disappointing for me as a proud Muslim American woman to hear that a group of students at a public university could show such disdain toward our flag and vote for it to be removed. They must know that it is a public university funded by the taxpayers – some of whom pledge allegiance to that very flag each and every day because of the very freedoms it has bestowed upon them. It is the symbolism behind the ...

Re: “Don’t put O.C. toll lanes to a vote” [Editorial, March 9]: Restricting pay lanes on the I-405 is not misguided because after spending $1.3 billion to rebuild the bridges, we will have the same number of free lanes we have today. Measure M clearly stated that one lane was to be added. If one lane is added, and the free high occupancy vehicle lane is made a HOV toll lane, no additional lanes have been added. The general public, ...

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